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With the dawn of the twenty-first century comes the awareness that current rapid political-economic-social and technological transformations will affect our of living, by producing new forms of information, communications, common way market, work-style and leisure. In this context, human behaviour will certainly change its 'fixed' parameters. It is likely that the relationships between internal structures and external influences, between individual components and collective behaviour, as well as between multi-scale networks and interrelated dynamics, will show spatio-temporal patterns which will be difficult to predict by means of our usual tools. As a consequence, academic research is increasingly being required to play an active role in addressing new ways of understanding and forecasting the sets of interacting structures, ranging from the technical to the organizational, and from the social to the economic and political levels, while at the same time incorporating concerns about the 'new' economy, environment, society, information and technology. It is now evident that social science - especially spatial and economic scienc- needs innovative 'paths', together with continuous cross-fertilization among the many disciplines involved. In order to investigate these intriguing perspectives, we seem to have embarked on an era of methodological reflections - rather than developing strong theoretical foundations. This volume aims to provide an overview of these new insights and frontiers for theoretical/methodological studies and research applications in the space-economy.
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Preface vii.- xxx.- 1 Introduction: New Frontiers in Modelling Spatial and Economic Systems.- 1: New Frontiers in Spatial Economics and Modelling.- 2 Spatial Modelling: Conceptual, Mathematical and Computational Challenges.- 3 Where Did the 'New Urban Economics' Go after 25 Years?.- 4 Complex Landscapes of Spatial Interaction.- 5 New Frontier Concepts in Spatial and Social Sciences: Towards Nested Theories.- 6 Methodological Challenges in Neural Spatial Interaction Modelling: The Issue of Model Selection.- 7 Classification Techniques in Quantitative Comparative Research: A Meta-Comparison.- II: New Frontiers in Decision-Making in a Complex Space-Economy.- 8 Advances in Comparative Assessment Research in the Space-Economy.- 9 A Hybrid Connectionist Expert System for Spatial Inference and Analysis.- 10 Knowledge Discovery and Induction of Decision Trees in Spatial Decision Problems.- 11 A New Method for Handling Complex Spatial Problems.- III: New Frontiers in Spatial and Dynamic Analysis.- 12 Generalized Stability Analysis of a Non-Linear Dynamic Model.- 13 Spatial Heterogeneity in Danish Urban Land Prices: The Expansion Method Philosophy and Variable Autocorrelated Residuals.- 14 What Underpins the Gravity Coefficient in Space-Time Modelling Aggregate Consumer Trip Behaviour to Shopping Centres?.- 15 An Extension of the Block Spatial Path Approach to Analysis of the Influence of Intra and Interregional Trade on Multipliers Effects in General Multiregional Input-Output Models.- IV: New Frontiers in Transport Networks.- 16 A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms and Logit Models in Spatial Networks.- 17 Feedfoward Neural Networks for Spatial Interaction: Are They Trustworthy Forecasting Tools?.- 18 Stochastic User Equilibrium Assignmentwith Traffic-ResponsiveSignal Control.- 19 A New Hybrid Approach for Transport Network Design.- 20 The Emergence of Small-World Phenomenon in Urban Transportation Networks: An Exploratory Analysis.- Figures.- Tables.- Author Index.- Contributors.
